Bullying on FFXIV

[PSxpert2011]

Have you even seen the Ventrilo harrastment Youtubes? LOL
Why make a thread about "cyber-bullying"?
Kids get bullied in school... never heard of bullies on the internet!

How to recognize a Cyber Bully.
Online bullying can take many forms:

• Sending threatening, taunting or teasing e-mails to someone.
• In an online game use their character to make themselves known around you with the purpose of bothering you. Like emos actions or moving around you.
• Using any other tech to spread gossip or rumors.
• Pretending to be another person online so you can post or e-mail things that will embarrass or get that person in trouble. Very common on the forums
• Being a “pretend friend” online so you can later hurt or humiliate someone.
• “Ganging up” on someone in a chat or on a message board because the more people they have, the powerful they feel.
• “Grieving” someone in an online video game by constantly picking on a new or inexperienced player.

Practically all of the above are just some if not a few ways of real bullying I've grew up around(witnessed) IRL. Not necesarily can be done online but if it escalates, that's why the GM is there.

[Shougun]

Have you even seen the Ventrilo harrastment Youtubes? LOL
Why make a thread about "cyber-bullying"?
Kids get bullied in school... never heard of bullies on the internet!



Practically all of the above are just some if not a few ways of real bullying I've grew up around(witnessed) IRL. Not necesarily can be done online but if it escalates, that's why the GM is there.

Not sure if its still true but I did like that about FFXI's gms. They responded within minutes almost always in person.

And they read those chat logs and did something asap. (though because they dont have a replay system MPKing was hardly enforced unless they did it again while a GM was watching).

I've read that the GMs in FFXI and FFXIV are the same, so perhaps they are too spread out now. Or some powers revoked. Just know you can report a series MPK issues in FFXIV and they wont even come to check it out.

[Coldfire]

Hard to tell if GMs do anything. They can be invisible (and probably are most of the time) and already say in advance(with the nice standard text) that you won't get contacted any further even if something happens. Don't really like that but it's to protect privacy I guess.

[Antipika]

Not sure if its still true but I did like that about FFXI's gms. They responded within minutes almost always in person.

And they read those chat logs and did something asap. (though because they dont have a replay system MPKing was hardly enforced unless they did it again while a GM was watching).

I've read that the GMs in FFXI and FFXIV are the same, so perhaps they are too spread out now. Or some powers revoked. Just know you can report a series MPK issues in FFXIV and they wont even come to check it out.

On XIV a RMT party tried to MPK mine for a whole 3 hours in Copperbell, called GM, they eventually de-spawned (I suppose jail? Or they all d/c'd one after another ). As for harassment in general, just report it to GMs, that has to be the easiest thing they can check, it revolves only about checking what was said in the chat... (And I suppose that like in all MMOs, GM can read everything, well I hope they can.)